merica, one of these tiny craft tion of it at acould be bought for almost any sum, twenty-five seldom realized,d o 11 a r s being t h ema x i m u m figure.But when more col-lectors came into thefield prices began ris-ing, until within thelast lew vears asmuch as eight thou-sand dollars has beenpaid… … and to have taken three yearsto build. The finding of a finemodel today and the acquisi-ow figure is a collectors dreamOccasionally a collector with thetrue flair can find agem in a rubbishheap. A case in pointis the builders mod-el of a gun-brig ofthe late eighteenthcentury in the priv-ate…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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